Odd that the people and institutions endowed and benefitting from the capital gained from slavery and colonization are bothered by reminders of it.
Odd that the people and institutions endowed and benefitting from the capital gained from slavery and colonization are bothered by reminders of it.
I feel like everyone should give her a break. Her job is to explain racism to rich white kids all day. And I feel like if that was my profession, in one of the whitest towns ever. I would utter the words, Fuck these white kids for real, at least five times a day.
His brain is likely in mint condition... Seeing as he uses it so infrequently.
With FOX and the Washington Times bringing their tiny little hands
OMG YAAAAS YASSSSSSS TO EVERY IDIOT COMMENTER WHO KEPT SAYING SHE WAS JUST OVERLINING HER LIPS I AM SINGING DASHBOARD’S VINDICATED AND DANCING AROUND THIS AIRPORT TERMINAL ALSO I AM PROBABLY VERY DRUNK
and while large pouty lips are rarely appreciated on women like me (read: not white), i have to say i am glad i don’t have to do any of this sh*t to get mine to look like that. i just need a little gloss over a matte, and i’m good to go. i’m sure all the black people who were harassed for their natural features in the…
That that sentence isn’t some kind of overly-dramatic exaggeration is so depressing it hurts my insides.
Knowing your rights doesn’t really help if they still seem to be able to arrest you regardless.
this sentence should be hyperbolic, but it isn’t. it’s just the straight up fucking truth.
thank god disisto is still alive...
Accidental racism is the most frustrating thing about Whiteness to me. I feel like White people are so much more concerned with appearing (to themselves as much as to the world) not to be racist than with actually not BEING racist that it’s impossible for them to cop to it when it happens on accident. Like, how bad…
“The girl in the photo is a white girl so clearly nothing about race.” Hmmm. Yes, because “being white” isn’t about race, whereas being anything but white is all about race. White privilege means that white people don’t have to worry about race, right? So as long as we just look at white people and talk about white…
You are a beacon of light in this great storm, sir. I hop you know how important you are.
I think people desperately want to separate athletes as athletes from athletes as people, because you’d inevitably have to take a really hard look at whatever sport you prefer over boxing. “Yeah, go ahead and criticize Mayweather, but I bet you support the NFL and their woman-beaters amirite?” I don’t think any…
Man, he’s gonna be pissed when someone reads this article to him.
There were a lot of people last night commenting on how they were trying to evaluate his boxing career separate from his behavior outside the ring.
It’s been almost 40 years since I graduated from law school, but I don’t recall being taught there was a “professional boxer exemption” to crime of battery.
It was asinine & caused nothing but pain & fear in their own neighborhoods.